Safety-razor.



W. E. OREILLY.

SAFETY RAZOR.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 12, 1914.

Patented Oct. 19, 1915.

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. SAFETY-RAZOR.

ments in Safety-Razors, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved safety razor and it refers to razors of-the kind in which the handle consistsof a resilient" member or members. As distinguished from other razors ofthetype just referredto, in which the handle-forming members have to be wholly or partly detached from the blade holder in-order tobe present invention has for itsobject to provide a razor having resilient handleforming members, which are so constructed-and arranged that they do not require to be detached from the blade holder for packing or when same is to be placedin its case. With this end in View, the' said handle members are formed either integral with the blade holder, or they are formed separate from the said blade holder and rigidly attached thereto in any convenient manner. 7 p

In the razor according to the presentinvention and in the preferred form, I employ a, holder of the usual comblike con .figuration and to which holder the blade may be secured in any convenient mannen.

Formed integral with the bladeholder and located one at each end, preferably in the center thereof, are two extensions of suitable width and of such thickness that they are sufiiciently resilient to permit them to be flexed to occupy the desired positions. The extensions are bent or turned inward,

and at their adjacent ends they are slotted or otherwise shaped so that the said ends may be connected or interlocked to render them sufliciently rigid to serve asa handle.

In order that the invention may be the better understood, drawings are appended in which Figure 1 is ,a plan of the razor showing the handle members in the position for use. Fig. 2 is a side view. Fig. 3 is an end view.

Fig. 4 is a longitudinal section of the guard to an enlarged scale, the handle members and blade being omitted.

Referring to the accompanying drawin s a indicates the blad'eholding portion of tEe Specification of LetteI'sIli'atent.

Patented Oct. 19,1915.

Application filed May 12, 1914. Serial No. 838,008;

razor having slots .upon each edge 'so that it presents the usual comblike guard common to razors ofthis type. V I bindica tes means for securing the blade 0 which "blade is preferably of the double edged form and is provided with a longitudinal slot. While the method and means for attaching the blade to the holder may bevaried as desired, in the present instance I'have illustrated "blade holding means such as forms the subject of- English Letters 'Pa't ent No. 4767 of 1913, and which comprises a longitudinal "projection whichis preferably of such height that when the razor is being stroppediit'maintains the'blade at the correct'angle to the strop' for sharpening, and which projection is slotted at each end at b as clearlyshown in'Fig. 4 so that the razor blade may he slipped thereunder by passing said projection through one end of the slot, sliding the blade longitudinally until the opposite end of the projection may be passed through the slot when the blade is moved slightly backward until both ends of the projection overlap the blade.

Formed integral with the holder at and disposed one at each end thereof are extensions 6 preferably of the outline shown, and which extensions are of such thickness, either locally or throughout their length, as to render them sufliciently resilient to be flexed or bent without breaking.

The members e are turned or bent inward upon the top of the holder 0 and when not connected occupy a position approximately that shown in dotted lines m Fig. 3. The handle members e are provided at their adjacent ends with a means of connection and in the present instance such means comprises slots 7 f which, when the handle members are drawn upward, or away from the holder an, automatically engage and firmly connect the parts holding them in the position shown.

' When it is desired to use the razor the close thereto when the razor occupies a miniward toward the holder it until they are I y case ofvery small dimensions. V While I do not desire to-limit myself in mum of space jand may be contained in any way to the construction of the blade holder a, I may, if desired, form it-ofsufliciently thin metal to enable it to be flexed longitudinally as the handle members are" brought together and thereby clamp the blade beneath the endsof the'proj ecti'on Claims: I I

'1. A safety razor comprising a blade, a

guard, means for, securing the bladeto the plane of the guard, and mea ns forconnect-y ing Ithe'h andle members when in-position for use; I

f- 2. A safetyrazor comprising alblade,; a v

v guard capable of flexure in the direction of its'length, a longitudinal projection on said guard having a ,slot at each end engaging the blade, flexible handle membersdisposed one at each'end of the'guardand normally disposed in a plane parallel with the:plane of the V guard and means for connecting the handle members when in position for use.

3 A safety razor comprising blade, a guard capable of flexure in-the direction of its length,- a longitudinal projection on said guard having a slot at each end engaging the blade, flexible handle members disposed oneat each end of the guard and normally disposed in a plane parallel with the'plane of the guardand means for connecting the handle members when in position for use.

4.- A saietyv razorlcomp'rising a blade, a; guard, means for'securingthe blade tothe guard, flexible handle members; capableof beingdisposed in a plane parallel to the In witness whereof I have hereuntopset omyv-hand in the presence of thegtwojundersignedwitnesses. r L v v WILLIAM'EDMUND OREILLY' v W n i r o c XHUBER'r D JA EsoN, Roll. WILLIAMsr Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents ea cl nby addressing the c i bf-Piteiltst v '7 washingto nc.

plane of the: guardand permanently ati V tached'at .oneend to the guard and normally 

